The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and OdditiesThackeray, William Makepeace
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The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Almanacs, English -- England -- London; English wit and humor
"Deer saly, my place hear is verry cumfuttabl, but i am verry
uncumfuttabl in it on acount of my Bean in sich a tendar pashun with
Yew. O lav, luv! i am grew as thin as a lath and hav found out wot it is
not to hav cuk for a swete hart. Our under ous made is verry fond on me
but wats the use of ous mades, won carnt heat brumes and skrubbin
brushs. O saly saly! yew wood ardly no me i am as week as a kittin, i
can scace andl my Spade & its all Hoeing to yew. i set ours & ours in
the forsing ous doing nothink but thinking of yewr perty face, & i offen
think ow appy we mite be with yewr 2 underd pound as yewr Grand muther
left yew, & yewr 50 pound in the saveing bank, & my 5 pound as Jorge
Hawl the squir's futman as is gone away ows me. We mite take a Publik
ous, the Pig & wissle for instants, & get a gud bisnes & be as appy as
the day is lung. Saly luv wat do yew say to me, let me no your mind, but
rimmember wat i sed about the Publik is strickly Privet.
"Deer saly, i carnt abuse my noo mastr & missus, at least not at
pressent, they are uncomon kind to me & so is al the fammaly. The 2
former blungs to a Linean sowsiaty & to ear em tawk aboat Bottany is
rely quite Transporting. We ad the annywal sho the uther day wich is
cunducktid in the most aprovd maner namely giving prises to al the
supskribers, wich givs gennaral sattisfaxion and advarnses siance. It
tuk place in the town all on wensdy last for Pinks Dailys and settera,
on wich okashun master was brote in Furst mule, & missus Furst fireball,
& i beg to anounce in the veggytibl line i was juged to be the Bigest
cabbige head out of 40. The sowsiaty has dun a gud deal of gud hear
abouts in regard of kichin gardn stuf, namely redishs so larg as not to
be told from carots, & peas like Led bulits, boath wich is nothink in
cumparryson of their turnups wich they hav at last suckseeded in growin
em so big & ollow as is gud for nothink but litle bys to make Jack a
lantans off. The sowsiaty increses annywaly evry ear, & oposishun is got
to sich a hite as yew woodent bleav. The uther day 1 poor felow, Bean
bete in his Carrots, axualy went ome & cut his Carrotid hartary.
Annother grate advarntidge is the onnerrery members dining togather
after the sho & eting up al the Best frute, by wich in Coarse they no
wear to aply to annother time wen they want anny. The rest is sold to
pay xpences. Allso it is a verry gud thing for the markit gardners, anny
1 of woom by paying 2 shilin entrants & sending in a 5 shilin baskit of
veggytibles stands a charnse of wining a ½ crown prise.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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